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" Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science. "
William M. Daley
Science
People
Relationships
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" What comes into the Oval Office are not the good or easy decisions. The easy decisions are made elsewhere. The things that make it to the Oval are always the hard ones. "
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" I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services. "
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" Bob Gates understands the difficulty of going to war. This is a man who spent almost his entire life working for the government. "
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Life
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" When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation. "
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" I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors. "
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OK
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" President Obama came into office in '08 with the belief that - and the public's belief in him - that he was moderate, that he wasn't a big spender. "
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" Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help. "
William M. Daley
Help
Voters
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" If anything, the Democrats' salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center. "
William M. Daley
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Party
Salvation
" No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years. "
William M. Daley
He
Senate
Lived
" As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'Do that.' A president has to lead the American people to where he wants to go, and the chief of staff needs to help him get it done. "
William M. Daley
Help
People
Say
" There are 14 Cabinet spots, and God only knows how many hundreds of people want them. "
William M. Daley
Only
Want
People
" Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy. "
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Business
American
" Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe. "
William M. Daley
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Candidate
Leaders
" Lots of people throw around phrases of 'no-fly zone,' and they talk about it as though it's just a game - a video game or something. Some people who throw that line out have no idea what they're talking about. "
William M. Daley
Some People
People
Game
" Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election, 'This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better.' "
William M. Daley
Election
Republican
Better
" Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times. "
William M. Daley
Business
View
Show
" Obviously in a campaign, people say lots of things that they find, when they get in the office, life's a little different. "
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People
Office
Life
" The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security. "
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National Security
Reason
Security
" The Republican establishment's 2008 embrace of Palin set an irresponsibly low bar. Coincidence or not, a batch of nonsense-spewing, hard-right candidates quickly followed, often to disastrous effect. "
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Embrace
Bar
Republican
" Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class. "
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Creation
Strategy
Long
" There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. "
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American
People
" As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders. "
William M. Daley
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Understand
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" There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports. "
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Prosperity
Path
" Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. "
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Think
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" Trump is a different politician. He was a different businessman. His campaign was different. What you saw in his campaign is what you're going to see in his presidency. "
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You
Different
" The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection. "
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Today
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" The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact. "
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Potential
" I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency. "
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" Commerce was the best job I could ever have. "
William M. Daley
Ever
Job
Best